late night debate

ok..so sam and i were sitting on the couch watching animal planet......something about frogs i think, anyway the frog ate a mouse(ya i know crazy shit huh!)....i said cool...sam said i hate frogs now. i was like what the f*ck?! he said " what did that mouse ever do to the frog? it can't protect itself and the f*cking frog ate it...someone should go kill the frog." i know his stand on predatory animals and he hates them, but stupid lil ol' me couldn't help but say "that is nature's course. the mouse was suppose to be eaten by the frog. that's what the frog eats." OMG the sky about fell on sam's head! it was like this sort of thing is unheard of. like lions don't eat lambs. or sharks don't eat seals. so after about a half an hour of arguing over that, we got into religion. he says it is bullshit...."all you have in life is yourself. not some god or goddess. religion was only made for people who have weak minds, to be ruled by the people who are stronger." i agree that more powerful people have used religion as a means to control an entire population. but for the most part i like religion....i don't care for some of them...but i'm not part of that religion......you don't like it, so don't believe in it. all religions do is give people hope and strength and the will to change their own lives......but try explaining this to someone who is headstrong and only believes in religion when something bad happens. he says" you are here...you came out of nothing and when you leave you will go into nothing. there is no heaven or hell....there is only nothing. there is nothing good about this life here. you live, you suffer and you suffer in dying and then you die....simple as that." i looked at him and i wanted to cry...there is nothing good about this life.....what about family and friends....what about the pets you have and love(even if they do die-when death passes there is life, for to only know you are truly alive, you must truly suffer.....for in suffering there is life and compassion) what about the children you have and you watch them grow....and you know you helped create that and there is a kind of calmness to knowing that-at least i think. too all of this he said " when you die you die alone...it doesn't matter how many loved ones you have, you still die alone...and in a couple of days they will forget about you and move on. friends betray you and kids grow to hate you." all of this kind of hurt my ears to hear. how can he say any of this. so all i said was that he was the weak-minded one. he is the weak one and people who believe in love and loss and hope and despair......they are the ones that are truly the stronger because they can put themselves out there to love, and know that in a heartbeat they can lose their whole world. they can make that leap, and know if the wind turns bad they can go head first into the side of the cliff. they are the stronger ones. religion gives us hope and love. sorrow and despair. renewal and rebirth. life cannot not function without religion. we would have no wonderment. no muses from which music and art and science came from. everything we have now, would not be here. society would crumble. now i am far from a jesus freak......and i don't knock anyones religion......now i might make fun of you if you are a lil over zealous with preaching and worship...but to each their own.......if it makes you happy to jump for joy in church, in temple, in your circle cast......or wherever else you worship....the so be it.....but i cannot live in a world where there would be on faith........

just a random rant....thanks for your time and comments